27/05/2025
Manchester United had finished second in the Premier League, behind the relentless machine that was Mourinho's Chelsea.
But 3 years later, he would have built arguably his finest side, a team that would win a pretty of trophies including an iconic three-in-a-row run of Premier League titles🏆 🏆 🏆
In tactical View of 2006-2007 Season how they lined up in a nominal Classic 4-4-2 ish shape.
In Possession:
Van der Sar was in goal-an elite stot-stopper who also had enough skill to distribute the ball out from the back; in front of him was typically the duo of Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic at centre-back, Rio was faster, calm and comfortable on the ball responsible to bring the ball out of defence.
United were flanked at fullback by Wes Brown and Patrice Evra Sometimes Gary Neville, John O'shea, Mikaël Silvestre And Gabriel Heinze, Wes Brown would start as either Central Backs or Right/Left backs. Brown mainly played his role more traditionally sitting deeper and concentrating on defensive duties. Meanwhile Evra, operated much further up the flank, keeping width and allowing for both overlaps.
In front of this bedrock were two of the best passers in Europe Paul Scholes and Michael Carrick, Carrick was utilised as a deep-lying midfielder whilst Scholes functioned as a creative playmaker getting more forward making late runs into the box and shoot from range.
On the left by Ryan Giggs– who tucked inside as a wide playmaker allowed Evra room to overlap Or United could start a right midfielders Ji-Sung Park and Darren Fletcher who operated as either central midfielder or destructive narrow shutting wide midfielders.
in attack, the trio of Wayne Rooney, Luis Saha, Cristiano Ronaldo, Henrik Larsson, Ole Gunnar Solskjær & Alan Smith. Ronaldo, nominally stationed wide right, was given the freedom of the pitch and thrived on it, playing on the right, the left and through the middle, positioning himself to get goals with the likes of Rooney slotting in around him.